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[arkfall]

I have no questions.

[He waits for Vash to be back on the phone.] Better now?

[goldenglasses]

Much! Thanks brother! I'll see you tomorrow for dinner?

[arkfall]

Tomoe will be joining us.

[goldenglasses]

Oh yeah? [He knows he shouldn't mind this, but it makes him nervous anyway.] That will be nice. Always fun to have more people over.

[arkfall]

She and I have been talking a lot lately.

[goldenglasses]

[Of course you have now that she's a Plant.] That's nice. I'm glad you two are getting along.

[arkfall]

[He wouldn't even deny that] As am I. She's another good influence, don't you think?

[goldenglasses]

[He can't hold back this time.] I just wish she could have been a good influence when she was human.

[arkfall]

Why?

[goldenglasses]

Because what she is shouldn't change how you feel about her.

[arkfall]

That's fucking stupid.

[goldenglasses]

How!? How is that stupid!? She's still the same exact person! Same personality that she's always been!

[arkfall]

She is not. She has been fundmentally changed.

[goldenglasses]

Only what she is! Not who she is!

[arkfall]

What you are matters, Vash. Pretending it doesn't is foolish.

[goldenglasses]

So if that house turned me human? You wouldn't care about me anymore?

[arkfall]

Don't even fucking joke about that. I would be devasted to lose you.

I'm not sure I could control my reaction and you would not have the power to stop me.

[goldenglasses]

But you wouldn't lose me. I would still be me.

[arkfall]

That's insane, Vash.

[goldenglasses]

No, acting like I would be gone or dead just because I changed species is insane.

[arkfall]

You would be gone. The thing that would be in your place might have achieved your dream of gaining humanity but it would not be you.

[goldenglasses]

I am more than what I am! [He doesn't hide how much this hurts. That it seems to him that his brother cares more about what he is rather than who he is.] I am a person first and a Plant second. Even if I wasn't Plant I'd still be your brother! Does that really not mean anything to you!?

[arkfall]

[This conversation is maddening to him.]

Why do you think you would still be my brother? We would lose our connection and you would no longer have the body that was formed along with mine.

[goldenglasses]

The lives we've lived together? That would mean nothing to you!?

[arkfall]

I don't know why we're talking about this. It didn't happen.